ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

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  • Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sinha

Keywords:

geo-tagging, transaction, accountability

Abstract

Government of India’s allocation for rural development programmes is ever increasing. For effective utilization of these resources, the Ministry of Rural Development has developed a multi-pronged accountability frame work for all its programmes with Financial Audit, Social Audit, Geo-tagging, IT based Direct Benefit Transfers, transaction based MIS, geo-tagging of assets, citizen centric mobile apps like Gram Samvad, Meri Sadak, Awaas, National Level Monitoring, annual Common Review Mission, creating a cadre of internal auditors, independent evaluation studies by academic institutes. These measures are not only helping the Ministry monitor these programmes better but has also enhanced downward accountability to the public. The paper describes this accountability framework, analyses it’s working and suggests ways to make this framework robust.

Author Biography

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Sinha

Assistant Professor, National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj ( NIRD&), Hyderabad

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Published

2018-12-31

How to Cite

Sinha, D. R. K. (2018). ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORK IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. ADMINISTRATIVE DEVELOPMENT: A Journal of HIPA Shimla, 5(2), 41–62. Retrieved from https://qtanalytics.in/journals/index.php/HIPA/article/view/358

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